John Lee Roach, a 21-year-old resident of Indianapolis, disappeared on December 22, 1982. Six days later his remains were found discarded near Belleville in Putnam County, Indiana, alongside Interstate 70. Investigators determined he had been stabbed to death and left near the highway.

The crime’s circumstances—young male victim, stabbing, and body dumped by a major roadway—were later linked to a pattern of killings in Indiana and Illinois in the early 1980s. Years later, Larry Eyler, known as the Highway Killer, admitted in a 1994 confession that he had acted alone in Roach’s murder. Roach was buried at New Crown Cemetery and Mausoleum in Indianapolis after services in January 1983. Eyler did not stand trial for this specific killing because he was already facing execution for other crimes and died in custody.

Did anyone who knew John Roach or who traveled Interstate 70 in late December 1982 see anything that might shed more light on his final movements?